Script writing

I've actually had enough of Marvel and their lack of female superheroes as the main focus in their TV shows and films. Women are always in the supporting role and I'm sick of it. Do the people in charge have no knowledge of the comic books? Where are Captain Marvel, Spider-Woman, Lady Sif, Scarlet Witch, Wasp - where is the love of my life, She-Hulk??

I've only seen about three episodes of Disney XD's cartoon series Avengers Assemble but I understood that the cast is made up of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Hawkeye, Falcon and Black Widow. Hey look, a token woman! (Don't even get me started on the ethnic "diversity" of the group). I tweeted and emailed Disney XD about their lack of gender representation, highlighting the fact that as a show about superheroes, Black Widow doesn't even count because she doesn't have any superpowers and-

I'm going to stop myself there before this develops into a full blown rant.

Disney XD's twitter account only has like five tweets; I wasn't expecting much from that platform so wasn't surprised when I didn't get a reply. Their email account on the other hand did reply to me, claiming they had passed on my comments to the creative team who would consider them. Yeah, I bet they'd passed on my comments. And humans will soon evolve to not have toenails.

In the mean time, I've decided to take things into my own hands. In the midst of intense procrastination, I began a new project: plotting the script for a She-Hulk film.

And yeah I've never really actually written a script before. I've read a number of plays though, and read half the script for the first episode of Ugly Betty - I don't know why. It should be pretty simple to write a script of my own, right? Ooh, and in the film Saving Mr Banks they showed a little about how the script for Mary Poppins was written. That was practically like an entire class dedicated to teaching me how to write a script, right?

Okay, so maybe I'm not in the best position to write the script, format-wise. But if no-one with the know-how is actually going to write the film because it just isn't the done thing to portray powerful women as the main focus of a two hour feature (because nobody wants to see that, obviously) then it might as well be done by a committed fan.

Who knows, maybe when it's done I can send it off to someone who actually knows how to write a film and they can fix it up and make it happen. At this point, I don't even care about making money from it (and a well-written, well-acted and well-directed film with a good soundtrack about a female superhero would make so much money). I just really want to see it come to fruition. Don't you?